Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For April 27, 2017 San Francisco District Court Judge William Orrick
III who issued a TRO against the DOJ from banning funds to sanctuary cities is a
political hack whosec politicization of the judiciary when it was revealed he
has bundled over $200,000 to Obama’s campaign and should have recused himself
(judiciary will lose all respect when judges allow their ideology to replace
the rule of law); Trump announced that Canada, Mexico and the United States
have agreed to renegotiate NAFTA; while the left continues to support legal
assistance to illegal aliens, DHS head Kelly announced the formation of the
Victims of Immigration Criminal Enforcement to assist victims of crimes by
illegal aliens and to better track them when in custody (about time we start
protecting Americans first); in yet another example of the delusional nature of
the UN, it is advancing the absurd notion that repealing Obamacare is a
violation of international law (time to scale back our contribution to equal
that of China and use the savings to build the wall; we now know that Obama has
a new title, Hypocrite in Chief, for accepting $400,000 from a Wall Street investment banking firm Cantor
and Fitzgerald to speak at the firm’s health care conference even though he
spent two terms castigating Wall Street bankers; on the man versus machine
front a highly intoxicated man in cooling his heels in Mountain View, CA after
knocking over a 300 pound robot, a Knightscope 5 patrolling a mall parking lot
(other than a few paint scratches robot has returned to duty in one piece); almost
like a stuck record or a remake of Groundhog Day, Chicago style, the
carnage in Chicago continues unabated with total shootings in 2017 through
April 25 increasing to 1020 and the death toll increasing to 176 (God
help those poor minorities being shot mostly by minorities when the weather
gets warmer and the shooters’ aim gets really better and there is more daylight
to find and shoot victims) and yet nothing, absolutely nothing, appears to be
occurring to address this blight on blacks and minorities which is what racism
from a black mayor really looks like who appears to care only about the rights
of illegal aliens in his sanctuary city (when will Chicago residents
through the city council try to impeach this pathetic, inept mayor?).
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to TLC,
factoids of interest for this day in history, a relevant quote from Gerald Ford, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any
memorable events like birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, you know that
the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a unique customized poem at a great
price tailored to the event and the recipient. You need only contact me
for details.
1. Poem in Your Pocket
Day—celebrating
on this day of National Poetry Month the putting a poem in your pocket and
sharing it with others as the world needs more poets and fewer lawyers; the
observance was initiated by the Office of Mayor in 2002 in conjunction with the
Departments of Education and Cultural Affairs.
2. Matanzas
Mule Day—commemorating the bombardment by the
U.S. Navy of a small Cuban village Matanzas which after expending a large
number of shells managed to kill only one living soul, a mule who was buried by
the Spaniards with full military honors.
3. 1999 Number One Song—celebrating
the number one song in 1999 on a run of 4
weeks in that position “No Scrubs” by TLC. Here is a recording of TLC
performing the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrLequ6dUdM
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the
day is “noyade” which means water boarding on steroids by executing by drowning, a means used in the 18th Century by the French.
5. Pioneer Playwright—celebrating the birth on this day in 1945 of Frederick August
Kittel, Jr. better known to his fans as August Wilson, a prolific award winning
playwright born to a black mother and German immigrant father whose pen was
taken away from him by liver cancer at the age of 60.
On this day
in:
a. 1667 John Milton, blind and impoverished, sold the copyright
to that tormentor of English majors, Paradise
Lost, for £ 15.
b. 1861 Abraham Lincoln
suspended the writ of habeas corpus.
c. 1936 the United Auto Workers split from the American
Federation of Labor.
d. 1945 Benito Mussolini
and his mistress were captured in the Northern Italian Town of Dongo trying to
flee to Switzerland; they were executed the next day and their bodies hung up
by their feet and displayed in the public square.
e. 1974 in a beginning
of the end of the Nixon Presidency, 10,000 persons marched in Washington, D.C. demanding
the impeachment of Richard Nixon who resigned in the same year on August 9, the
only president to have resigned from office.
Reflections on Watergate by
one who sacrificed his reelection chances to try to heal the country by
pardoning Nixon: “The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again
must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass
the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.”
Gerald R. Ford Fortunately for the Reds that lesson was not learned by
the HRC campaign. Please
enjoy the poems on events of
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links below. Go to www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—This Day in
History, poems to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy and poems on
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© April 27, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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